EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Jeremy Clarkson and girlfriend Lisa Hogan holiday in South of France party villa - which inspired David Hockney's £60million Portrait Of An Artist By Richard Eden for The Daily Mail Published: 22:06, 9 August 2024 | Updated: 22:06, 9 August 2024 e-mail View comments Does anyone rejoice in high summer quite like Jeremy Clarkson ? I ask because the Oxfordshire farmer has forsaken his rolling acres at Diddly Squat in favour of the sun-kissed hills of the South of France . 'If you know, you know,' he captions this snap online, showing him peering at the shimmering, subaquatic shape of girlfriend Lisa Hogan. Well, I do actually.
I can reveal that the couple are enjoying the setting which served as inspiration for David Hockney's Portrait Of An Artist, which sold in 2018 for £60million. It was painted in 1972, three years after Hockney stayed with film and theatre director Tony Richardson, father of actresses Joely and Natasha. 'If you know, you know,' he captions this snap online, showing him peering at the shimmering, subaquatic shape of girlfriend Lisa Hogan The couple are enjoying the setting which served as inspiration for David Hockney's Portrait Of An Artist, which sold in 2018 for £60million Jeremy Clarkson and Lisa Hogan attend the GQ Men Of The Year Awards at Tate Modern on September 5, 2017 Richardson, who was bisexual, had separated from Joely and Natasha's mother, Vanessa Redgrave, five years earlier.
But he remained an assiduous and generous host, dispensing unending champagne and Provencal rosé to guests at his villa who, over the years, included everyone from Jack Nicholson to Judi Dench . All manner of recreation was laid on. Indeed, the villa's major-domo, Caliban, a former pavement artist, would obligingly sleep with anyone of either sex.
Not that Clarkson, 64, or Hogan, 55, would ever have needed such diversion, of course. Name of the week She's a member of one of the most splendidly uninhibited of aristocratic families, so Morwenna Lytton Cobbold has chosen an appropriately flamboyant name for her first child. I hear that former Burberry model Morwenna, 34, and her husband Phil Bush, who used to sing with rockers Cazals, have called their son Aurelius Balthazar Cobbold Bush.
Just perfect if he ever takes to the stage at Knebworth, the Lytton Cobbold stately pile in Hertfordshire which has hosted everyone and everything from the Queen and Oasis to jousting tournaments. Morwenna Lytton Cobbold in London on September 17, 2014 Aled's songs of praise for late Queen Aled Jones performed in front of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip many times, and their comments afterwards were very different. 'She was always so gracious; she was always interested in how long the piece had taken to learn,' says the Songs Of Praise presenter, 53, who shot to fame singing Walking In The Air as a teenager.
Speaking on the Rosebud podcast, he adds of the late Queen: 'I met her after singing with Leonard Bernstein and she was, 'Oh, that must have been tough – how long did it take you?' and I explained about the masterclass, and, 'Oh, and the voice is sounding great', she'd say. 'And then, invariably, Prince Philip would come along and ruin it all by saying, 'Has your voice broken' or something like that – which he did often.' Aled Jones attends Global's Make Some Noise Gala at Supernova on November 24, 2015, in London Warner Bros boss barks at Burchill in Adele's defence Provocative columnist Julie Burchill has been taken to task for a recent article on pop superstar Adele by record company boss Rob Dickins.
The chairman of Warner Bros UK for 15 years, he happens to be the uncle of Adele's longstanding manager Jonathan Dickins. 'I assume you haven't met Adele or seen a live show?' he complains beneath Burchill's Facebook post of her article. 'Like Taylor Swift, she uses romances as source material, her actual life seems pretty happy and indeed fab.
' Dickins took particular exception to comments Burchill made about the singer's weight history when she referred to Adele's 'endless roundabout of binge-eating and wine crying'. Dickins responds: 'You appear to be implying that a young woman to not want to be fat is a terrible thing. She is photographed at sports which she loves, not at parties, Met Balls or movie premieres.
'Perhaps you would all be happy if she became a Kardashian.' Adele attends the 65th Grammy Awards on February 5, 2023, in Los Angeles Sir Tim Rice was a big supporter of Margaret Thatcher and attended her funeral, but he didn't feel accepted in the Tory party under David Cameron. Now, he says he was afraid of airing his political views in Left-wing dominated showbiz circles.
Referring to an article about the 'art world's assumption of its political and social rightness which should not be challenged', Sir Tim says: 'I don't know whether the more downmarket areas of British culture are also inhabited by a self-appointed cultural elite but, just in case they are, I keep my trap shut.' Sir Tim Rice attends the film premiere of Disney's 'The Lion King' at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on July 14, 2019 When punk violinist Nigel Kennedy is told by airlines that he has to pay for an extra seat for his fellow musicians' larger instruments, he makes sure he gets his money's worth. 'I got a cellist in my band – I always demand an in-flight meal for the cello,' Kennedy tells me.
'The cello should get a meal – we've paid for the fee.' Her career spans six decades, but Lulu has no intention of hanging up her microphone any time soon. 'Of course not!' the 75-year-old Shout singer says of her recent remarks.
'I said that it would be my last ever tour, and people started saying, "Oh, so you're retiring?" And I told them, "God, no." 'There will be more gigs – definitely. In fact, there will be a second part of my tour starting in November, because a lot of people couldn't get there, and it was sold out.
I love working, and I never want to stop.' Lulu playing at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow on April 10, 2024 Dunbar's girl is a musical force to be reckoned with Adrian Dunbar, Line Of Duty's Superintendent Ted Hastings, proved he could croon a tune on stage in his first musical, Kiss Me, Kate. And the actor's daughter Madeleine has shown that she's 'cooking with gas', too.
The cabaret star, 36, has ventured into the music world and appears to have hit the right note with the BBC, which has used two of her songs in a drama. 'I'm so delighted to have my first TV placements on BBC One's Champion,' she says. Written by Candice Carty-Williams, Champion tells the 'explosive story of what happens when fame collides with family'.
Adrian Dunbar pictured with his daughter Madeleine Dunbar Zizi Strallen is enjoying a soaring West End career, but she does suffer precarious moments. The actress, 33, a niece of television star Bonnie Langford, says: 'There was the time I got stuck mid-flight in Mary Poppins in front of the curtain. 'Stage management had to come on in a cherry picker to get me down.
It took about two-and-a-half hours.' Far from Practically Perfect..
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